Literature After Euclid

Literature After Euclid
Author: Matthew Wickman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812247957

Literature After Euclid tells the story of the creative adaptation of geometry in Scotland during and after the long eighteenth century. Analyzing the work of Scottish literati, Matthew Wickman challenges how we perceive the Scottish Enlightenment and the modernist ethos that relegated "classical" Enlightenment to the dustbin of history.

After Euclid

After Euclid
Author: Jesse Norman
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publica Tion
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2006
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

What does it mean to have visual intuition? Can we gain geometrical knowledge by using visual reasoning? And if we can, is it because we have a faculty of intuition? In After Euclid, Jesse Norman reexamines the ancient and long-disregarded concept of visual reasoning and reasserts its potential as a formidable tool in our ability to grasp various kinds of geometrical knowledge. The first detailed philosophical case study of its kind, this text is essential reading for scholars in the fields of mathematics and philosophy.

Euclid's Elements

Euclid's Elements
Author: Euclid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2002
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

"The book includes introductions, terminology and biographical notes, bibliography, and an index and glossary" --from book jacket.

Handbook of Psychology, History of Psychology

Handbook of Psychology, History of Psychology
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2012-10-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0470619015

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.